The lesson by paul laurence dunbar read these lines from the poem. for oft from the darkness of hearts and lives come songs that brim with joy and light, what is the effect of the imagery in these lines? a. it conveys how music transforms the speaker’s attitude from depressed to uplifted. b. it explains how songs reinforce the speaker’s belief in the importance of staying positive. c. it expresses the speaker’s viewpoint that the best music is inspired by suffering. d. it emphasizes the speaker’s perspective that life is a painful experience.

C. It expresses the speaker’s viewpoint that the best music is inspired by suffering.

C. It expresses the speaker’s viewpoint that the best music is inspired by suffering.

Explanation:

In his poem "The Lesson", Paul Laurence Dunbar talks of how to turn sorrow into joy by means of his own composition. Bringing himself out of his own depressed state, he decides to make his own composition in the hope that it may help turn another man happy.

The use of imagery in the lines from the fourth stanza signifies the poet's belief that joy can be brought out of "dark[] hearts and lives". He feels that the wore pain and sufferings bring the most "joy and light" in a man's life. Like the joyful sound of the mockingbird's passionate song coming "out of the gloom of the cypress grove", he could also make his own composition to cheer someone as depressed as he has felt. Amidst the suffering and sorrow of one's life, there is always a possibility of joy emanating from underneath the pain.

glamis thou art, and cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis'd; yet do i fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition; but without the illness should attend it. what thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, and yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great glamis, that which cries, "thus thou must do, if thou have it: and that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone." hie thee hither, that i may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal.  

he lacks ambition.  

he is hesitant.  

he lacks courage.  

he has moral scruples.

everyman: morality play

which phrase in this excerpt from the play everyman refers to god's judgment of people's souls after their death?

messenger: . .

ye think sin in the beginning full sweet,

which in( the end) causeth thy soul to weep,

when the body lieth in clay.

here shall you see how fellowship and jollity,

both strength, pleasure, and beauty,

will fade from thee as flower in may.

for ye shall hear, how our heavenly king

calleth everyman to a (general reckoning):

give audience, and hear what he doth say.

god: i perceive here in my majesty,

how that all the creatures be to me unkind,

living without dread in worldly prosperity:

of (ghostly sight) the people be so blind,

drowned in sin, they know me not for their god;

in worldly riches is all their mind,

they fear not( my righteousness), the sharp rod;

(my law that i shewed), when i for them die

hopefully this !